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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d agoIf you want to see the whole process, start here and go up the thread
Ukraine’s grain corridor stays officially open. The ships have stopped coming anyway. After Russian attacks on the ships and ports, wheat and barley trains faced restrictions on inland routes. At peak harvest, that is how a sea war becomes a farm-price crisis. We map the chain in 2 minutes.
Russia could launch 100 ballistic missiles per month at Ukraine, presidential tech adviser Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov warned. He said that the strikes targeting corporate and logistics infrastructure will continue. www.kyivpost.com/post/81773
Drone found at German airport after cargo plane collides with object mid-air
Drone found at German airport after cargo plane collides with object mid-air
Investigators looking into whether incidents at Leipzig are linked after DHL plane forced to make emergency landing A DHL cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing after colliding with an unknown object as it was climbing away from Germany’s Leipzig airport, where police later found a drone on the ground. The German government on Wednesday confirmed the incident, which led to serious disruption of air traffic. Continue reading...
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About to play "Battlegroup Clash: Baltics" by @jsbuckley.bsky.social at @sapperstudio.bsky.social 🎲 I'm going to try Scenario 2 (The Battle for Purtse Bridge) ⚔️ 🔗 The game is currently sold out, sign up to the Sapper Studio mailing list for updates on a reprint: sapperstudio.com/battlegr
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says - FT
"To stay ahead, naval intelligence must invest in emulation. Wargaming should incorporate synthetic drone swarms guided by machine-learning models trained on adversary behaviors. Analysts must understand how swarms think: probabilistically, nonlinearly, and autonomously."
The U.S. Army has reportedly used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during America's five-month war with Iran. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
AI help improved skin-diagnosis accuracy, but explanations affected users differently. Nonexperts were more likely to follow wrong LLM outputs, while clinicians did best with the prediction alone. doi.org/hcdjsr
Medical AI benefits vary by expertise, with nonexperts more easily misled
A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn't the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis.
medicalxpress.com
The Trump administration tried to use visa denials and deportation to silence researchers who study social media. A court said no. Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder, former legal externs at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, break down the CITR v. Rubio ruling.
Trump Cannot Use Immigration Law to Silence Technology Researchers
Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder detail an initial court victory for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research in CITR v. Rubio.
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My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future | Joshua Pederson
My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future | Joshua Pederson
The predictions market is planning to allow betting on clinical trial results and regulatory decisions as our family fights for his survival
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Attention: new original data source unlocked! Based on federal budget reports, I estimated the number of Russian troops in Ukraine, both mobilized and contract soldiers. The numbers are based on different salary top-ups that Russian troops in Ukraine receive. janiskluge.substack.com/p/the-compos...
A rare TLR2 variant was associated with more severe COVID-19 in nearly 4,000 people in Italy. TLR2 also carries signs of much older evolutionary pressures. doi.org/hcdjs3
Evolutionary history may help explain why some people develop more severe COVID-19 than others
Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Howard University suggests that some of the genes involved in the body's immune response today bear the marks of ancient battles with infectious diseases.
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MORE | Mojtaba may have made this warning to prevent Pezeshkian from using the threat of his resignation to influence regime policies.
Critical Threats Project@criticalthreats.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW | Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be trying to reduce President Masoud Pezeshkian and other “pragmatist” officials’ ability to influence the regime’s approach toward the United States in the current conflict. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...
“The migrants were never going to be able to reach the mainland EU, but that fact was irrelevant to anti-migrant politicians around the world who portrayed the incident in apocalyptic terms. And that, in turn, is shaping the response of more mainstream governments…” www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/e...
The fallout from the Ceuta border rush shows extreme, populist views are now mainstream | CNN
The human tragedy was undeniable: around 60,000 desperate people surging across a breakwater barrier from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last Thursday, some drowning and others trampling th...
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25.2 billion pixels per second with 3-micron resolution across 5 square centimeters at 120 fps: this computational microscope uses 48 disjoint sensors and reconstructs data lost between them. doi.org/hcdhg5
Bringing it all into focus—computational microscope captures 25.2 billion pixels per second across a wide field of view
When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another.
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#RodentOfTheDay Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) "In addition to baseball-sized nests used by a single adult, sometimes makes larger nests occupied by a group of 8 or more." #MouseMonday Ph/Inf: www.mammalsociety.org/golden-mouse P.S. Lost my post tracking, so repeats may be incoming.
Garry Kasparov explains that the collapse of Russia is ensured, now a zombie nation, existing purely on feeding the population the perception of territorial gains, a fake winning narrative that allows Putin to hold power.
The European Union has introduced mandatory labeling of content created by artificial intelligence to combat disinformation.
Australian Government is protecting more ocean, and the species which call it home, through a proposed expansion of the existing marine parks around Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands off Australia’s east coast. /1 thread minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/media-r...
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⚡️Update: President's top ally Umerov appointed head of Foreign Intelligence Service.
President's top ally Umerov appointed head of Foreign Intelligence Service
Rustem Umerov will continue coordinating the Drone Deal initiative while remaining involved in peace talks to end Russia's all-out war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Russia launched 1,900 drones, 1,600 guided bombs, and 144 missiles across 16 Ukrainian regions over the past week, damaging over 1,500 objects. Zelensky urged stricter global sanctions on Russian defense firms producing component parts. www.kyivpost.com/post/81571
You people are maniacs. But I might have to frame this one
elkovigge.bsky.social@elkovigge.bsky.social · 4d agothat was blofeld classic white cat. next, with lily...
NEW: Iran is threatening to target energy infrastructure in the Middle East, likely to try to deter the United States and Israel from following through on reported plans to strike Iranian energy infrastructure. (1/7) Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
